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He told police gathered outside "If anyone comes into the house, I have turned the gas on and will blow you lot up".

Gareth Gimson, prosecuting at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, October 30, said there were also threats to cut the officers.

"One noted he appeared to be holding a meat cleaver or a large kitchen knife," said Mr Gimson. "He said he 'turned on the gas', held a cigarette lighter in his hand and was making threats to blow up the house. He lit a tea towel and was throwing that around the address. One officer could smell gas.

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"Kieran Anderson fitted the cooker. He knew once pulled from the back, the pipes would not leak. He knew the gas was not leaking to any great extent.

"Two hours later he gave up and came out of the address with a laceration to his hand and went to hospital.

"It was a two-hour hostage-type situation, long enough for police to evacuate residents from the street and housing estate. Gas experts made safe the property. They couldn't find any gas spilling into the address".

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The victim, whose home was damaged extensively, said in a statement read to the court "I feel at my wit's end with everything that is going on and everything that has happened recently".

The couple were together for seven years and split up weeks before the incident. Anderson had been on bail not to attend the property on allegations that were later dropped.

She described being controlled by Anderson "most of the time", telling her what to do and what to wear.

"She believes he still presents a threat to her when he comes out of prison," said Mr Gimson.

Police incident on Yorke Drive in Newark

Judge Stuart Rafferty QC sentenced him concurrently to three years and four months for making threats to kill; three months for damaging property and two years for making threats to cause criminal damage.

He imposed a restraining order indefinitely.

"Emergency services were mobilised, marksmen brought, a negotiator and a police helicopter was hovering overhead," the judge told him in the dock.

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"You made threats to kill which the police readily accepted given the way you were behaving; threatening to cut them up; goading them to come in.

Police incident on Yorke Drive in Newark

"This led to a wider public disorder in the sense that people were evacuated from their homes and still you persisted. What you did that day requires a sentence of imprisonment".

Lauren Fisher, for 30-year-old Anderson, of no fixed address, said he is "fully appreciative of the upset and destruction caused".

Police incident on Yorke Drive in Newark

What police said

Detective Constable Scott Dickenson said afterwards in a police statement: “This incident was hugely intensive on our resources, as well as other emergency services. A whole community was disrupted due to the selfish actions of one man.

“Thankfully no one sustained any injuries, but I suspect that the only reason the house didn’t explode was because Anderson had previously smashed a window.

“No one deserves to go to work and have their life threatened, which is what happened to many officers during the incident. People who join the emergency services do so because they want to help people, so it would have also been a frustrating time for all of those workers, aware of how many 999 calls were being made during those hours, by people who really needed their help.”